Knowledge Society Symposium
For the second year, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina hosted the Second Knowledge Society Symposium, a two-day closed symposium, that focused in depth on the challenges associated with the teaching and research in the centers of excellence in as well as discuss how they can nurture innovation and creativity.

In addition, the symposium addressed the problems of capacity-building for sciences and technology which represents a big challenge all over the world specifically in the Arab World.